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THE PLAYERS - CHINATo reach China, North Koreans must travel for days unnoticed, often on foot, avoid the border guards, who have orders to shoot to kill, as well as drowning in the Tumen river that separates China from North Korea. One would expect the Chinese to take pity on those who make it across. While some do, many exploit them. According to estimates, an astounding 70% of the women and girls as young as 12 years old are captured by the Chinese, raped and/or sold into sexual slavery, either in brothels or as wives to ageing peasant farmers. Why doesn't the Chinese government intervene? Instead of intervening, the Chinese government actively hunts down the North Koreans in China, especially the Christians, who are particularly unwelcome in the communist China. Anyone aiding North Koreans is threatened with a prison term and the North Koreans caught are taken to the border and handed to North Korean agents. The Chinese government also forbids international aid agencies, including UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) from even travelling to the North Korean border region, let alone aiding the North Korean refugees. Instead, it invites North Korean agents into the region to hunt down the North Korean Christians and refugees. Does the Chinese government have the right to repatriate North Korean Christians? No, the UN Convention on Refugees obligates: "No Contracting State shall expel or return a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." (Article 33: Prohibition of Expulsion or Return) China is not only a "Contracting State" to this convention, but is also one of the Executive Board members of the UN Human Rights Commission, and knows that repatriated North Korean Christians will face imprisonment, torture and execution, while pregnant women are forced to abort or deliver and then watch their babies killed. It is hypocritical of China to have signed this Convention and to occupy a leadership position in the fight against human rights abuses around the world, yet hunt down and repatriate North Korean refugees, as well as turn a blind eye to infanticide and the rape and sexual trafficking of the vulnerable women and girls among them. Why is the Chinese government doing this? The proximate reason is that North Koreans refugees burden the local economy and could turn into a full-fledged exodus from North Korea. But the ultimate reason is spiritual. The Chinese government is busy persecuting the 100 million Chinese Christians in underground house churches across China and doesn't want to add to their ranks more die-hard Christians. Satan also wants to stop northeast China from serving as the staging area for the evangelization of North Korea. |